University of Hawaii experiment

[H Keith Henson]

It has been sometime since I was reading this group. I assumed that the
experiment by Liaw, Tao, Turner, and Leibert would reported in the Proc.
of the Special Symposium on Cold Fusion, World Hydrogen Energy Conf. July
22-27 would have been reported here, but looking through recent posting
I could not find any report of it. The article I have is a reprint of
a report on an experiment done by the authors" Elevated Temperature
Excess Heat Production Using Molten-Salt Electrochemical Techniques. I
will type in the

ABSTRACT

An investigation of elevated-temperature excess heat production in the Ti-D
and Pd-D systems is presented here. A eutectic LiCl-KCl molten salt
saturated with LiD is used as the electrolyte in a Pd/Al or Ti/Al electro-
chemical cell. Typical operating temperatures are around 370 deg C, which
results in faster kietics compare to room temperature operation. If this
system can be developed for utility applications, high-grade heat and high
thermodynamic efficiencies can be expected. Since the electrolite provies a
very reducing environment, metal surface oxides are readily removed: thus,
this unique system offers the possibility of using less expensive materails
than Pd. A modified isoperibol calorimeter was buit for the excess power
measurements. Preliminary results show high levels of excess power output
especially in the Pd_D system, although the effect remains sporadic.
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The graph shows about a hundred hours of measured heat output of 10-25
watts over the baseline input from heating tape and electrode power, with
power gains of up to 1500 percent (defined as excess heat output/electrode
input power). The article takes into account all chemical explainations
by calculation. Both Leibert and Laiw are Stanford quaduates who worked
under Dr. Higgins in Material Science (but not on his fusion work) The
results for Ti are less impressive by a factor of about 10 than the ones
for Pd. The experimental description is exceedingly detailed, which is
one reason I don't want to type it in. Keith Henson (sorry for the
typos, it is a pain to move this to a machine with a spellchecker.)